Tag: Willow City Loop

Steve, Rebel, and I went for a Sunday drive through the Texas Hill Country yesterday to see the wild flowers.  We took a route from Fredericksburg north on State Highway 16, driving first through the Willow City Loop which was beautiful as  usual. The Willow Loop is worth the drive with or without flowers, but the flowers were very nice this year.

After returning to Highway 16 we drove on to Llano, and then detoured off onto Highway 71. The Flowers along this stretch were also gorgeous, but from there we took County road 307, better known as Slab Road and traveled along it into Kingsland. It’s a great drive through here as well.  It is so wonderful to see the water flowing so strongly over the granite at the slab again. There were plenty of people enjoying the warm day in the water and a nice array of flowers along the route as well.

We ran into some friends in Kingsland. That was an unexpected treat, so we stopped and visited a while and let our little travel companion, Rebel, my son’s white Heeler run around a little.

We returned along Althaus Davis Road. Unfortunately though there were some flowers, this route was relatively bare,except at the Blanco County end, unlike it had been in past years. We cut back through Willow City again and then took the Eckert Road off Highway 16. There were little to no flowers through this area. It was a nice drive through the neighborhood though.

Farm to Market 965 is said to have a wonderful display off flowers this year from Enchanted Rock to Highway 16. I plan to get out there sometime this week. If you are planning to see the Bluebonnets it would be best to do so this week because we observed that they were already going to seed so they won’t be around too much longer, probably only a week of two. Of course there are and will be plenty other flower varieties  to fill in and make the drives just as beautiful.